====== Mermaid System (Cyberware) ======
===== MERMAID SYSTEM (PL 7) =====
The mermaid system is a fish-like, legless tail for the lower body that replaces the recipient’s legs. Often, the recipient uses a [[cyberport cyberware|cyberport]] to allow her to switch between normal replacement legs and the mermaid system.

**Benefit:** When using the mermaid system, the recipient has a swim speed of 30.  Because she has a natural swim speed, the recipient doesn’t have to make [[Swim (Skill)|Swim]] checks to move up to her speed in the water.  When she is forced to make a Swim check, she gains a +8 bonus, and she can always take 10 on the check, even if she in distracted or endangered while swimming.

A mermaid system does not allow the recipient to breathe underwater or the survive unusual extremes of clod or pressure, though it is often combined with other cyberware that do.

**Type:** External.

**Location:** All leg slots.

**Hardness/Hit Points:** 12/20.

**Base Purchase DC:** 26.

**Restriction:** None.

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